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Features

Networking capabilities provided by OVN-Kubernetes.

Universal Connectivity

User-defined networks, network segmentation, and cross-network connectivity.

Network Security Controls

NetworkPolicy, AdminNetworkPolicy, and EgressFirewall enforcement via OVN ACLs.

Cluster Egress Controls

Control how traffic leaves the cluster with EgressIP, EgressService, and EgressQoS.

Infrastructure Security Controls

Node-level identity and security mechanisms.

Multi-Networking

Attach pods to multiple networks with multi-homing and multi-network policies.

Multicast

IGMP snooping and multicast relay support via OVN.

NetworkQoS

DSCP marking and traffic shaping for pod network traffic.

Live Migration

Persistent IPs and seamless networking for KubeVirt VM live migrations.

Hybrid Overlay

Mixed Windows/Linux cluster networking using VXLAN tunnels.

OVS Dynamic CPU Affinity

Automatically adjust OVS datapath thread CPU pinning based on load.

Hardware Acceleration

Offload OVS datapath processing to SmartNICs and DPUs.

BGP Integration

Route advertisements, no-overlay routing, and EVPN support via BGP.